Creepmas Day 7

 

I have been busy decorating for Creepmas.  This means making crafts.  I thrifted two sets of changeable glass coasters and designed some images on the photo shop. Quick, easy and bursting with holiday spirit.

The Lanterns from Baby M's wedding are perfect Creepmas decor.  I added some skulls beads with tiny santa hats atop red pencils that I taped and painted to look like candy canes and a little floral on the top. These will sit in the center of the Creepmas table.

The table runner below was purchased at the dollar store but modified with some fringed from Who Gives a Scrap and a glitter skull patch.  It looks a little like something Elvis might have worn back in the day.

Finally, as Covid is once again rearing its ugly head, his Lordship and I are in need of some new masks.  So I made this very fun Nightmare Before Christmas mask out a dog toy destroyed by the Grandog. It will be fun to wear it as I avoid the general population.

Stockings and Other Creepmas Decor

I have a few other craft ideas for your Creepmas decor.  Above is our spider sculpture that we surrounded with lights.

I finally modified a stocking I purchased some time ago after Christmas at Michaels. I added the ribbon and the bow.  Michaels sells a nice 12x12 black paper that is easy to cut but looks like velvet. I used that for the letters and bats. However, when I went back this year to match a stocking for his Lordship, I had no luck.  Everything is in burlap and white - no burgundy velvet in sight.  Guess I am the only one getting my stocking stuffed this year.

 I also printed some dancing skeletons wearing Santa hats and holding lights onto vellum.  I put these around some holders salvaged from old candles.  These pictures were taken with a votive inside.  I since changed to a tealight and now the skeles feet are visible.

Hope you are enjoying Creepmas.  Only two days to go!

Ornaments

I promised some ornament crafts and I will share today.  I got the inspirations from this video a friend shared on my face book page at Halloween.  I decided to modify it for Creepmas.  However, I could not find the video and hence had to wing it. Sigh!

So I photo shopped a skull wearing a Santa hat, printed them on vellum and stuffed them into the clear plastic ornaments.  Then I dripped some red paint down the outside as per Debra She We Seeks request.  So here they are on the little Creepmas Tree.

I like this tree.  Looks like aspens - very Colorado.

Pumpkin projects

I do love pumpkin projects for Creepmas.  Only problem is that pumpkins disappear from stores at Thanksgiving.  But you know who still has them? Your neighbors.  Especially your neighbors who don't believe in carving them at Halloween.  His Lordship asks our next door group for uncarved pumpkins and presto, like magic the neighbors provide.  Just look at this haul
So I get this great idea from the great deceiver, that's right - pinterest, on what to do with this haul.   Laurenconrad.com's 5 hacks for carving pumpkins looked good and gave me an idea to use cookies cutters to make pumpkin luminaries.  Only problem?  It is damn hard to put a cookie cutter through a pumpkin.  I ruined two cookie cutters in the process and cracked the pumpkins to boot. Not so enamored of this project and will definitely not be doing it again. It is Creepmas Dinner party tonight and I was counting on these decorations.  Pinterest be damned.  These things suck.

I think they will either be banished here to the basement or pitched in the trash.  What's your vote? Dungeon or Dump em?

Cookies

 2017 cookies have been made and frosted for tomorrow nights meal.  I limited myself to a few designs - Teddy scares, Creepmas Owls and Franken Santas.  I used a new high altitude sugar cookie recipe with good results.

I put some red hots on the Teddy Scares that I found at the Dollar Tree (vs. paying the big bucks for the kind in the tiny jar with the other sprinkles and cookie decorations).  My Teddy Scares could be angry or perhaps constipated.  I am not sure which.

On the Franken Santas, I combined a Frankenstein head with a witch hat.  I attached the two and modified the hat to have a smaller brim and a bauble on top hence they are all a little different.  I not to smitten with the faces.  They look like slightly bored, green football players.

Lady M's Gingerdead Offering

Last Christmas I got a Peanuts Gingerbread house on sale.  Needless to say, upon opening, the gum drops and gum snoopies were disgustingly stale.  It did not stop me from using the kit.  After all, I would have to be crazy to eat this thing.  The snoopies and gum drops were disposed of as were all the little peanuts cut outs.  It was easy to put it together.  Unlike the last kit, the gingerbread was not broken.  It is a neat, as in tidy, little house.  Here are some more photos.

Creepmas Day 9

In recognition of Pumpingrot's snowman design for Krampus and indeed for scary snowmen everywhere, I present my 2015 pumpkin snowman sculture.  He is part of the dungeon décor and is oh so frightening.  Thanks to all my neighbors for the leftover pumpkins and to Rot for the inspiration.  Here are some pictures of him doing his thing.

 

His hat is fashioned from cardboard and gorilla tape.  I carved him and then painted him with primer to inhibit mold.  I put my flashing strobe inside for a fun holiday effect.  He he is in a video.

 

Post Halloween Blues

It's hard not to get the blues around this time.  I have cleaned up all the decorations and my house is back to the boring.  I miss the spooky, all the blogging both reading and writing, the anticipation, the purpose - I MISS HALLOWEEN. So to combat all this misery, I have decided to get onboard with Cat Winterfoxes Hallovember  and of course Creepmas from Dec. 1-13th. 

So in anticipation of these amazing events, I went to post Halloween sales with an eye on crossover crafts for the ongoing seasons and found lots of good stuff.  I even remembered as I was cleaning up to keep the Creepmas stuff in a separate tote so I would not have to pull everything back out looking for tree ornaments or glittery skulls.

Plus, while it is fresh in my mind, I made a tote of all project things - stuff that needs repairs and modifications.  Those crafts like gargoyles requiring of a new coat of paint or LED candles desperate for some hot glue drips.  This is all wishful thinking however, as next September, I will open that tote and say "oh yeh, I meant to..."